Facebook Marks Articles About Data Breach As “Spam” on Facebook

After a Friday data breach that resulted in 50 million compromised accounts, a Silicon Valley tech giant marked articles reporting on the breach as “spam” on its own platform.

“Facebook has blocked users from posting articles from the Guardian the AP about the social media platform’s latest user data breach, marking them as ‘spam.’ The company later reversed decision, which it called an ‘error,’” according toBreitbart.

Shaun Hair, executive editor of the Western Journal, first noticed the Facebook scam, and reported it on his Twitter account:

“Watch @Facebook tell me the Guardian article link that busts them on a privacy breach is spam,” he said with an accompanying video.

Facebook brushed off the incident as an innocent mistake in a statement:

“Our automated systems incorrectly marked two news articles – one from The Guardian and another from the AP – as spam. We fixed the issue as soon as we were made aware of it, and people should be able to share both articles. We apologize for the inconvenience.”

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